about doyle drive. it was not a safe place. >> this is as good as grand slam yesterday, i think. you know how long this has been in the cooker so to speak it will be a bit longer. construction expected to go through 2015 with landscaping in to 2016. live in san francisco, abc 7 news. >> there is bart ridership has taken off, seeing six of the 10 busiest ridership days. yesterday saw the fifth most with nearly 432,000 people riding bart. of course many of them going over to the a's game and playoff run. fleet week are huge factors in the surge. the only busier day is for giants world series parade and bay bridge closure in 2009. >> talking about bridges and traffic, a heads up for drivers using san mateo bridge. starting next friday, caltrans will close the bridge for seismic upgrades. 12 sections of the deck need replacing and joints need to be installed there. it's for the weekend with the bridge reopening at 5:00 a.m. monday. and following weekend, same thing all over again. be prepared. >> minnesota

brian doyle? >> i see medications that are going to be at least as effective as the ones we have now, if not more effective, with more favorable side effects. >> have you heard of free gavelin? >> yes. >> what is it? >> it it the first generation of drugs that will affect the inside the brain cells an alter the way they work. that's where the central problems with and that's the hope of the future. >> are we talking genetics here? >> ultimately, we may be, actually. >> because there's reference to that in this new book that i just got by chance, better than prozac, samuel h.barrantes, quite a story there, that they can manipulate genes so as to provide a level of what, sanity, full sanity that the victim had been deprived of. do you want to make any points on the subject of the future? >> i think it would be exciting to say we are able to invent drugs that can work a longer period of time. the complaint is that people will an srri that works and it will peter out and then they have to find a diffe

taxes, doyle. one of the things they were -- will argue about is who will cut your taxes and raise your taxes. how do we see this play out on the stage at the debate last night? in a way that it mirrors what we've been seeing on the campaign trail? >> well, you had a serious debate over taxes. one of the things i think jeff is absolutely right. that debate between the vice-presidential candidates was about reaffirming the argument of each side's partisan base. if the word "bipartisan" was spoken during that debate, i missed it. gwen: no. it was spoken. but it was spoken by paul ryan. making the case that that's how they can solve problems. >> arguing that it could be bipartisan but paul ryan was actually going back to the republicans' 2010 playbook. where it was all about lower spending and tax cuts. joe biden was sticking to the -- the attack line of the obama campaign which is that mitt romney's tax cuts don't work. he must be hiding some details. he's trying to pull the wool over your isles. gwe

my name is fenel doyle. i would like to make sure we're thankful because the main issue is being safety. there are so many accidents at these intersections it's scary to be a local resident. i live on divisadero above a day care. every day i see women walking with their toddlers in their strollers. this neighborhood is residential and also mixed use. i love riding my bike in san francisco. i think rts frpt for us to meet that goal of having one continuous bike lane in the city. i'm upset that the project has been delayed and delayed and delayed and forgetting that this is a public safety issue. i was hit by a car in november, a reckless drive. i have a titanium leg. i'm healthy, it's fun, and i encourage everyone to do it. that gentleman who is 61 years old he looks so healthy. he's been riding his bike. it's the polluters in the neighborhoods that you're listening to. these people are driving cars and polluting the neighborhood. it's visually disgusting. it's contributing to all of the air pollution in the

once we did this, we decided doyle drive, we've been trying for ever to do something about doyle drive was not a save place. >> the 76-year-old roadway was an example of the state's aging and neglected transportation structure. much of money came from one-time sources of stimulus money and the matt i have voter approved measure 1-b. these days transportation funding is hard to come by. >> we have to be very specific on the priorities that we attack, and we have to look and be creative on how we fund pro -- projects. public-private partnership will be a part of that solution. >> construction should wrap-up in 2015. heather ishimaru, abc7 news. >>> speaking about getting around the bay area, there is a closer you should be aware of right now. harrison exit from the bay bridge is closed this morning until at least 8:00 a.m. due to caltran's work. and then coming up, eastbound highway 4 will be closed monday morning from midnight to 5:00 a.m. in antioch for a agreeing -- freeing widening project. a detour will be provided, but drivers should expect delays, although in a noncommute directio

we have been trying forever to do something about doyle drive.was not a safe place. >> 76-year-old roadway is an example of the neglected transportation infrastructure. caltrans director malcolm dougertm says it's hard to come by? >> we have to be creative how we fund these. >> construction should wrap up in 2015. heather ishimaru, "abc 7 news". >> katie: speaking of getting around the bay area there a closure you should know about. you want to be aware of right now. harrison exit from the bay bridge, is closed this morning it may have wrapped up. it's supposed to be closed until 8:00 a.m. eastbound highway 4 will be closed monday morning from midnight until 5:00 a.m. for a freeway widening project. a detour will be provided but drivers should expect delays. starting next friday, san mateo bridge will be closed two weekend needed a row. it will close in both directions for seismic repairs. caltrans crews will be replacing 12 sections of the bridge deck. that work will take place the weekends of october 19th and october 26th. they expect to reopen

and we're like doyle drive. we've been trying forever. to do something about doyle drive. not a safe place. >> the 76-year-old roadway was an example of the state's aging transportation infrom a structure, much of the money came from one time sources of stimulus money. caltrans director doherty says these days transportation funding is hard to come by. >> we have to be specific on priorities and have to look at the creative on how to fund projects. and there is a public private partnerships will be a part of that solution. >> there is more still to come tonight. a remarkable break through. >> thanks to stem cell research paralysis patients feeling >>> bay area stem cell researchers are reporting encouraging results tonight. the first involves patients paralyzed with spinal cord injuries and a treatment that could offer hope for the future, nearly 20 years after the football injury roman read holds on to the hope he'll some day walk again. >> 100%. >> he now runs a foundation to promote stem cell research and has been watching a clinical trial that's goal is to restore moto

. >>> more doyle drive demolition is coming soon. what it will mean for bay area drivers. >>> and your bay area weekend is here. it looks like it will get nice around here. one of the days, we'll see temperatures in the 80s. i'll show you which one it will be. >>> the presidio parkway project leading to the golden gate bridge is about to take the next step and involve s taking a part a piece of history. david stevenson has more. >> reporter: gasia, take a good look. this last remaining remnant of doyle drive will be going away soon. in just a few weeks, this piece of san francisco history will be taken down piece by piece. >> appreciate your help. >> reporter: federal, state, and local agencies today kicked off the final phase of a $1.4 billion project to replace seismically unstable doyle drive. >> a revamped link between san francisco and the golden gate bridge. our workers will gain more jobs. our economy will grow. >> reporter: phase 1 of the plan began in april with the 57- hour demolition of this stretch of doyle drive roadway

drive, we've been trying forever, long before the presidio to do something about doyle drive. roadway was an example of the state's aging and neglected transportation structure. much of money came from one time sources of stimulus money and the massive approved approach of the b. these days transportation funding is hard to come by. >> we have to be very specific on the priorities that we attack, and we have to look and be creative on how we fund pro ex. public-private partnership will be a part of that solution. >> construction should wrap-up in 2015. heather ishimaru, abc7 news. >>> speaking about getting around the bay area, there is a closer you should be aware of right now. harrison exit from the bay bridge is closed this morning until at least 8:00 a.m. due to caltran's work. and then coming up, eastbound highway 4 will be closed monday morning from midnight to 5:00 a.m. in antioch for a agreeing wide inning project. a detour will be provided, but drivers should expect delays, although in a noncommute direction. >>> starting next friday, the san mateo bridge will be clos

and when you look at growth and transformation of the embark, the same with doyle. it will be a cherished part of the city and a worthy addition to what is there. >> it will be a safe and beautiful entrance to a spectacular beautiful city. it will be the entry to golden gate that san francisco deserves. . >> it is my pleasure to introduce our moderator this evening, cheryl jennings. a emily award winning she hosts the news monday through friday and host of the community affairs show "beyond the headlines" which takes a in-depth look at issues. cheryl is a long time volunteer for the san francisco leauge of women voters and moderating many

reporting live at reagan national airport, i'm jessica doyle. i'm going to send it back to you in the studio. >> jessica, thank you. >> a lot of people want to know when they see the disaster how they can help. here's a quick and easy way you to help the hurricane victims. just like wusa9 on facebook. for every one of you who will, we'll donate a dollar to the american red cross sandy relief fund. stay with 9news. we'll be right back. gldz howard here with your weather first. temperatures in the upper 30s and low 40s. might see a passing shower or sprinkle. partly to mostly cloudy skies today. upper 40s to around 50 by lunch time with highs today in the mid-50s. you'll definitely need the jackets. i'll be back in a few minutes with the rest of the seven-day forecast. >>> work continues on a three- vehicle accident on the outer loop of the beltway right at new hampshire avenue. it's already causing major delays as you can see. only the left shoulder has been getting by for a while with flares set up and police on the scene. i'll have more on this

we sent jessica doyle to reagan national airport to get information. >> reporter: good afternoon. things are finally starting to get back to normal here at reagan national airport. the first flights of the day i'm happy to report got off on time, about six hours ago. but it could be several days before everything returns completely to normal. here's the reason why. take a walk with me. i want to show you this side of the tarmac. you can see two planes are prepared to take on their passengers. they're filling the slots over there. but on the other side of the tarmac, you'll see it is empty. the situation is the major carriers pulled their planes out of the washington area sunday night to get them out of the path of hurricane sandy and her 60 mile per hour wind gusts. they now have to rotate them back into the airport here at reagan national. that could be a couple days to get everything back to normal. but i will tell you passengers who have tickets in hand today, they are very, very happy. >> i'm from florida. it's supposed to be that weather in florida, not here. tried to get out

jessica doyle is live along the water front in george town. jessica. >> reporter: good morning to both of you. i'll show you the winds. their still chipping in georgetown. you can see the flags flowing. we're over by the sequio restaurant. we had massive flooding here in 20th 201 -- in 2011 because the flood walls wither not up. we could be seeing in george town the worst flooding in 16 years. it could be days before we know exactly what is going to happen here. let me direct your attention to the river. what we're seeing right now is a low tide. high tide comes today about 9:30. there's lots of degree -- -- debris in this water. it could be thursday or friday before we see the waters come rushing in. all of this water also coming in from pennsylvania. we could be facing a very serious potential problem with flooding. national weather service is saying a ir -- areas that are most vulnerable is the george town water front, old town. definitely we're going to be keeping an eye on the water levels here. that debris, if it comes ashore, we're abou

i am just looking at the high tides for alexandria where jessica doyle is. there's one at 8:45 and 9:00 p.m. tonight. those will be the critical times because we have coastal flood warnings 1 to 3 feet above normal high tides. a full an also. that's exacerbating things a little bit. this storm is not going up the west side of the chesapeake. if it were going up the west side of the chesapeake like isabel, it would be a lot worse than that. we'll give you the day planner and get into everything else that's going on with this severe weather alert 567891 by noon -- alert. 51 by noon. winds north, northwest 20 to 40. by later this afternoon they'll be gusting in the 50 to 60 mile range. right now it's still relatively calm. you've got a little bit of time to take some precautions still. maybe clear any leaves out of the drains. warnings up and down from the virginia-north carolina coast all the way up to maine. hurricane force wind warnings, marine storm warnings. consider them the same as tropical storm and hurricane warnings at this point. you can see what's g

and also doyle drive the new doyle drive is lightly traveled at this hour. this mornings commute is moving along pretty well on interstate 880 in oakland. and in san jose we are still doing very nicely on northbound 85. northbound 87 the traffic continues to look very nice on 101 as well. let's go to steve. >>> thank you, sal. clear skies. it could be a little bit of low clouds around. the low is finally moving. problem is two speeds slow and stop. sunny and breezy today. a little cooler than sunday. the low looks like it's best chance to move would be tomorrow. maybe later today a few high clouds could come in here advance of that. but more likely tomorrow. san jose at 51. redwood city is in there as well. the low doesn't have a lot to work with. the key it looks like it's sliding right down the coast. that would be tuesday and wednesday. sunny and breezy today. i don't think much of a change for coast and bay. they have been stuck in the low to mid 60s. tuesday and wednesday that low will be close enough we have to throw clouds in. it will be far enough so

earlier in the week we told you it's been quiet since april's teardown of doyle drive. now you can expect things to pick up as crews rip down the remaining older elevated road building the new one. also, just ahead, a couple of new tunnels with that walkway across the top. >> we have been trying forever long before the presidio to do something about doyle drive. it was not a safe place. it is not a safe place. so whether it was a matter of safety or was a matter of quality of life and getting people moving faster, it had to be done. >> the presidio parkway is expected to be finished by 2015. >>> well, the consensus after the vice-presidential debate, not the same as we heard last week. what the polls are saying about the vice-presidential debate especially among californians. >> from the cbs 5 weather center, good evening, everyone. sure, we have been damp, cool, but now the day that will top off in the lower 90s. pinpoint forecast coming up. >> testing children's self- control. a new twist to the marshmallow test what it may predict about a child's future. >> and the s

you will find some roadwork in lanes on southbound 101 on the approach towards doyle drive. and the toll plaza and also some roadwork in lanes going against the commute northbound 101 from the waldo tunnel towards sir francis drake. for the most part south bay free and clear this morning on the 101, the guadalupe parkway and 280 through downtown san jose. coming up we'll give you a check of mass transit. we have traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. back to you guys. >> thank you. >>> a week of nobel prize winner announcements wrapped up this morning with the surprise winner of the peace prize. the winner the european union. u received the award for the advancement of peace, reconciliation, democracy and human rights in europe. >>> a student protest turned hostile today in santiago, chile. thousands of students held a demonstration clashing with police, they contend the government failed to deliver an adequate response to their demands for education reform. >>> security is tight on indonesia's resort island of bali as survives and victims' families mark 10 years sin

. >> i'm jessica doyle in for mike hydeck. thank you for joining us this morning.ll have a traffic in a moment and howard starts us off with weather first. >> saturday won't be so bad. sunday is going to go downhill. then next week we have troubles with sandy. we'll really detail that for you in about 15 minute. today i want to talk about your friday forecast because we've got some low clouds, fog, spotty drizzle. this is kind of a neat camera shot in our tower in northwest d.c. you can see the cloud deck lowering still right at the surface but we've got some spotty drizzle as well. temperatures are running anywhere from the upper 50s to low 60s with the high humidity, low clouds. we won't see very much in the way of warping through midday with the clouds hanging out. 56 by noon. sunshine this afternoon should help boost us like yesterday into the lower 70s. still very mild for this time of year. we've got fog quarter mile visibility at petersburg. zero in the shenandoah valley. we're looking at a mile and a half in easton. some areas have been below a mile this mo

. >>> i'm jessica doyle in upper northwest, four things you're doing that you don't realize could be putting you and your family in jeopardy. i'll have the story coming up. >>> and in virginia, coming up, battleground state women talk about the issues on the presidential candidates fighting for their votes. >>> really? yeah, what a big surprise. >> and particularly honing in on the women voters. and women, they are talking about the issues. >> reporter: they are targets for mitt romney and president obama. >> being a woman is not a pre- existing condition. >> this president has failed their women. >> reporter: he used to work for a fortune500 company and says they don't have a clear picture of romney's physician. >> one issue for me is very important. i think with the regards to the economy that obama has a better plan. >> reporter: this mother of three believes the president's affordable care act will lower cost for women and also concerned about the gop's stand on abortion. >> it's like an issue out of madmen. are we in 2012? i mean why are we talking about these things right now?

chances to shed the pounds. ,, because the project extend te toll plaza >>> well, it's hard to believe doyle drive construction began in 2009 because the project extending from the golden gate toll plaza to broderick street looks the same. cbs 5 reporter mike sugerman goes behind the fence to show us what progress has been made. >>> reporter: it was quite a show watching that old ugly doyle drive come down. but that was back in april. still looks pretty much the same today. so it's been like a couple of months. so you know what? what are they going to do with this? these are the leftovers. when he'swhen is this going down? >> right now they are doing the little things. >> reporter: caltrans says it may look like nothing is going on but it is and gave us a behind-the-scenes tour. >> so a big part of the project is part of the work that people don't see as much is the utility work. >> reporter: they have a lot of stuff that's underground and needs to be moved because they have plenty more highway coming in so now they are moving things like water, gas, telephone lines. >> coming weeks what peo

you can really see it in this camera heading towards doyle drive in san francisco.uch more traffic coming up. in the meantime, back to you guys. >> thank you. >>> a middle school teacher under arrest suspected of selling drugs. police say they found a pound of pot and $4,200 in his car in the school's parking lot. 66-year-old allen goodman is a teacher at hercules middle school. officers searched his walnut creek home and say they found evidence of a marijuana grow and a large amount of cash, as well. >>> oakland police are preparing for protests today and tonight. it was one year ago today that police used force to evict "occupy" protestors from frank ogawa plaza. a rally is planned at city hall at noon today to mark the anniversary. a march is planned tonight and protestors are expected to spend the night outside city hall. >>> since the "occupy" raid last year, oakland police have arrested more than 700 protestors but the "contra costa times" reports only 109 of them have been prosecuted. and 37 of those have been found guilty. >> it is 5:40. former secretary of

i'm andrea roane. >>> i'm jessica doyle.oward bernstein is along with your weather first on this monday morning. >> and a mild monday morning. rib the sand out of -- rub the sand out of your eyes and get moving. the weekend is over. it looks like a decent week except maybe this afternoon when we'll have our best chance of showers all week long. this morning you won't need a jacket. it's warm enough with temps in the 60s but still about an hour and a half until the sunrise. there may be a stray shower in far western and southwestern areas as we head into the next couple, three hours. but i think much of the morning stays dry here. it will be the afternoon that features the better chance for showers and maybe even a rumble of thunder. so temperatures will climb to the lower 70s for the lunch hour. i think that's going to be about the high for the day. with showers around this afternoon, that will help cool things off into the upper 60s. 369 by 4:00 p.m. -- about 69 by 4:00 p.m. yes, maybe even a thunderstorm. temperatures by 8

jessica doyle is live from old town alexandria which is used to the flooding drill. jessica, howard says you can expect even more rain coming your way. >> reporter: absolutely. i'll tell you, andrea, it's really picking up. at least the rain has been picking up. i'm surprised that we haven't really seen the huge wind gusts just yet. but let me tell you they are coming. the expectations are that wind gusts along the potomac, boaters will understand this are expected at 55 knots today. what that means, if you're looking at the bowford scale, that's one scale of checking wind. if you're a boater, you understand a lot of this stuff. but to translate it into normal person language, that is gail frs woindz -- force winds. wind is going to abhuge problem in the washington area bringing down trees. we've been telling you this throughout the coverage. obviously power problems are expected but it's also going to cause more problems along the potomac as howard was telling us earlier in the day. at one point the winds were going in one direction pushing out water into the bay. a

we haven't been talking about shannon doyle. they -- i know howard has a facebook friend, barbara who was asking about that. hopefully you will get your power back on and everything else along with that. >> a update on power outages in our area. the numbers are going down. >> thank heaven. >>> thousands of people are relying on the 9 news text alert. texas sandy to 25543. yosz blue will be -- you will be signed up immediately and start receiving alerts. stay with us, we'll be right back. >>> good morning. it's 6:14. it's the day after the storm. you are look ing at a live picture of china town. what's really interesting about that section of the city now is its full of lights like you're in new york's time square. >>> good morning. thank you for being here with us. mike is monitoring social media. >> two wise guys. >> from new york. >> exact ly. just what you need. >> i know. come on. take it away. >> they got hammered up there. winds 9 president obama 0 -- winds 90 to 10 0 in spots. we're going to focus on our problem. we do ha

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i'm jessica doyle in for andrea roane. >> good to see you mr. bernstein, how are you my friend? >> reporter: it is chilly out there this morning. you need the jackets in the 30s and 40s. it is going to preclude much in the way of frost this morning. the colder temperatures are 46

and julian doyle checked this out. this is gizmo. he has his rain gear on, checking it out. our next, you is evie, this beautiful cat like leave me alone, i want to go to sleep. our next one is my cousin's. this is rosie. he's she's all bundled up, protecting herself from the storm. and this is ward sigler. he tweeted this to me with and his dog butter is saying what storm? what storm? keep the pictures coming, especially once the sun comes up. we want to see what kind of damage sandy did to you. you can e-mail them to us at wusa at webproduction@wusa.com. >> i have a friend meg began, and her husband keith in virginia, they were all sleeping in the basement, and for the first time, the cats and dogs, not exposed to each other, everybody's down in the basement. >> no. cats and dogs sleeping together? >> i'll have to find out. >> that's a headline right there. my dog say lover and a sleeper. so i don't think he'll change his routine at all. >> i think we got a little lucky here. >> so far. wind gusts are way down, except in winchester and out to the west. a 29-mile per hour w

will slowly but surely see the completed project come up from the ground. >> reporter: the rubble of doyle drive is supposed to be recycled. the steel tresses to be melted down and the steel tresses crushed and then used to build the new highway. >>> the department said more than 700 plants were discovered many were growing in two large greenhouses. authorities said they also found 1,300 pounds of marijuana ready to sell along with an ak47 assault rifle. the estimated value of the marijuana is said to be about $4 million. >>> san jose firefighters are sounding an alert tonight. they want people to be on the look out for a serial arsonist. the arsonist struck last night setting a small fire on delna manor lane. there's been 10 deliberately set fires in west san jose in the past two weeks. earlier this week we told you about several small fires near an apartment complex on south baskin avenue. most of the fires have been in dumpsters, shrubs and once a couch. firefighters say even the small ones are serious because they could very easily spread. >>> now to our election 2012 coverage. mitt ro

will slowly but surely see the completed project come up from the ground. >> reporter: the rubble of doyle is supposed to be recycled. the steel tresses to be melted down and the steel tresses crushed and then used to build the new highway. >>> the department said more than 700 plants were discovered many were growing in two large greenhouses. authorities said they also found 1,300 pounds of marijuana ready to sell along with an ak47 assault rifle. the estimated value of the marijuana is said to be about $4 million. >>> san jose firefighters are sounding an alert tonight. they want people to be on the look out for a serial arsonist. the arsonist struck last night setting a small fire on delna manor lane. there's been 10 deliberately set fires in west san jose in the past two weeks. earlier this week we told you about several small fires near an apartment complex on south baskin avenue. most of the fires have been in dumpsters, shrubs and once a couch. firefighters say even the small ones are serious because they could very easily spread. >>> now to our election 2012 coverage. mitt romney c

i'm jessica doyle, in for jacket. jeakd. j. c. hayward. >>> joggers on the capital crescent trail from bethesda are concerned about what happened here around 7:00 sunday night. a 21-year-old attacked and sexually assaulted on her evening jog. >> i'm turned, actually. i felt secure. lots of cyclists. i have never given it a thought. >> i drive on this trail three or four times a week and never felt unsafe at all but definitely makes me kind of second guess. >> this woman stopped for a few seconds to allow deer to cross the trail, but those few seconds was all it took for somebody to come up from behind. hit her on the head, knocking her unconscious. >> she awoke sometime later, off the trail, and was able to get back to the trail. thankfully a 40-year-old male jogger was passing by. >> reporter: the victim is still in the hospital, recovering from serious head trauma. but she was able to give a description of her attack tore police. a white male, mid-20s, wearing dark clothing. until he is caught, police are asking all joggers, esp

fining out the obama administration is telling states to start adding more people on the medicaid doyle . some of you say that is black mailing state to make the healthcare law look success employ. weome to forbes on fox. we'll have elizabeth john and rick and vict toria and mark and rich. good to see you. emac, is it black mail? >> under the law. you will see half of the uninsured possibly going in through medicaid. the states administer medicaid and the deal with the federal government with the healthcare law, we will match a hundred percent of the cost. that will go down. if you don't do what we like we'll remove the federal fund the states, cops, fire men and teachers and transportation could get cut. >> mark, even supreme court roberts who liked the obama care and said it was not unconstitutional. but a state said who opts out stands to lose a small percentage of the medicaid funding but all of it. he said it is coercive . >> that is one justice's opinion and the fact is, it is a federal program . it was passed by congress and no cost to the state by three year after that only 90 p

. >> jessica doyle is here with today's headlines. where do we begin? >> we begin with earnings. we've been looking over all the earnings to see how companies are doing. we have a fresh crop this morning. after the closing bell, yahoo reported slightly better than expected quarterly sales and profits. texas instruments taking the wind out of those sales. -- sails. sales fell. after the bell the big one today facebook set to deliver its results, and a lot of people are going to be watching that one. checking the numbers now the dow stands this morning at 13,345 after eking out a two- point gain. better than a loss. the nasdaq was down 11. -- or rather up 11 and the s&p 500 was up by half a point. just one item on today's economic calendar. it's a doozy. the federal reserve begins two days of meetings when it reveals its decision on interest rates. all that much change is not expected. the official announcement from the central bank is due tomorrow following the meeting. >>> today the d.c. city council is holding a hearing on a bill that would allow cars on the streets of washingto

. >> jessica doyle is here with today's headlines. good morning. >> good morning. this is the biggest part of the economy where the white collar jobs are created. dat institute for supply management -- today the stews for supply management releases its index for september. that could provide a hint about friday's big monthly reports that everybody is watching. wall street had a mixed finish yesterday. checking the numbers. the dow stands this morning at 13,482. the nasdaq down by six points and the s&p 500 was up by about a point. ifif our -- if you headed to the auto dealership, you had a lot of company. car buyers stormed the showrooms in september. auto sales hit their highest level in more than four years. people are finally getting rid of the old aging cars and car loans are getting easier to secure. in the meantime don't expect any cheap iphone 5 power adapters. you could buy cheap knockoffs but it turns out the new connector that apple is using on the iphone 5 is much, much harder to fake. you like my iphone 5 case. this is from speck. these are some of the

now, earlier in the week, it's been quiet since april's big teardown of doyle drive, well, expect thingspick up. crews will be ripping down the old road. look for tunnels and lanes leading into the marina district. >> we have been trying forever long before the presidio to do something about doyle drive. it was not a safe place. it is not a safe place. so whether it was a matter of safety or quality of life and getting people moving faster it had to be done. >> the presidio parkway expected to be done by 2015. >>> all right. let's go to the southland. let's take a live look from los angeles. >> oh. >> right by the doughnut store! [ laughter ] >> that's the space shuttle endeavour. and clearly allen has a sweet spot there right for doughnuts. [ laughter ] >> it's making its 12-mile trek to the california science center. and thousands of people have come outlined the streets to watch the shuttle squeeze past the buildings. >> obviously not our helicopter because we would want them to stay on the shuttle. >> where is it? >> either that or they are looking for doughnuts. >> dave lopez has th

. >> jessica doyle is here. another bad day on wall street. >> but at least we're seeing green arrows overseas. we're digging your selves out of a le. tough five sessions in a row with the dow now approaching a 500-point sell-off. stocks were down again yesterday. that's even though we got strong earnings from companies like boeing and delta. checking the numbers for you, the dow stands at 13,077, slipped another 25 points in trading yesterday. nasdaq off by almost 9 and the s&p 500 was down by about four and a half. zinga stock will be one to watch today. the maker saw shares soar 14% in after hours trading. the social gaming company reported stronger than expected earnings and it plans to enter the gamblingbusiness. zynga will offer online poker and came seen know games played with real money in the uk. >>> good looking? check. funny? check. thrifty? apparently more and more people don't mind going on a first date with someone who is frugal. in fact, they even like it. a survey by harris interactive for coupon

. >> jessica doyle is here with today's headlines after a robust finish yesterday. >> if you like the blue chips, it was a good day for it. if you're a tech stock investor, not so much. the market got a boost on positive news from manufacturing after several months of a decline. the dow stands at 13,515. rose about 78 points in trading. nasdaq slipped by 3 but it has been doing very well recently. so don't feel bad for it. s&p 500 was up by almost four points. >>> apple has already apologized for its map application not being as reliable as previous options. now there are reports that its new operating system might be draining cellular data from your cell phone plan. one verizon user hit his monthly data unit in six days. apple has pushed for a fix from verizon but at&t customers are also reporting similar problems. >>> spur rate airline customers will soon need to plan ahead to stave money. starting -- save money. starting november 6 the carrier will charge a $100 fee if passengers need to check their carry-on baggage at the gate. they want to discourage passengers from waiting till

peter doyle. >> thanks, jim. >> congratulations, patrick, i have your new pizza out here, the deep dishnow i have to right you a quote "pizza hut's ceo, not terribly worried about this competition" although i see he is worried about the pepperoni in tonight's presidential debate. >> well, you know what we, we'r not paying that much on the competition, but the pan pizza category is a 6 billion category in the 30 billion dollar pizza category. and that doesn't include, you know, the frozen pizza that is sold in grocery. so we look at it, we're going after a big part of the business here, so we could go after -- >> wait a second, you have an ad, just if you know what i'm referencing to with the debate, if somebody is asked preferred sausage or peperoni, they get a life time of pizzas. you have an ad where you're holding a frozen pizza dough, is there any chance that could be the frozen competitor's pizza dough? >> clearly it is a competitor's frozen dough, and we're making ours fresh, that is the difference. we think that is what makes it a great-tasting pizza. but you know, we're not targ